General Aggression Model and Development of Aggression

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General Aggression
Model and Development
of Aggression

AGGRESSION
• Aggression is defined as expression
or extreme anger
• According to Anderson & Bushman
(2002) Cognitive Neoassociation
Theory, aggression express hostility
and that is expressed in the form of
slamming of doors, loud noises and
ball temperament
• Aggression can also generates from
frustrations and this falls under
routes aggression (Kempes, Matthys,
De Vries, Van Engeland, 2005)

PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF
AGGRESSION
• Social Learning Theory: Aggression
is acquired instrument or a behavior
that is being instigated
• Script Theory of aggression:
Situations and guide behavior guides
the expression of aggression.
• For example a child raised under
adverse situations like domestic
violence is vulnerable to become
aggressive in later stages of life
(Anderson & Bushman, 2002)

PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF
AGGRESSION
• Excitation Transfer Theory: The rate of
physiological arousal dissipates slowly.
• If two events instigating by a sense of
arousing is separate by a short period of
time, the initiation of second event might
lead to expression of the anger dissipated
in their first event and this arousal is
aggression
• Social Interaction Theory: Aggressive
behavior is an expression of the prevailing
social condition and the social influence
(Anderson & Bushman, 2002)